At the very end of the bible, John the Revelator is given a
vision much like Enoch’s; in fact, he sees Enoch’s holy city, the new Jerusalem
in the latter days “coming down from God out of heaven . . .And I heard a great
voice out of heaven saying, behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he
will dwell with them, and they shall be his people.
. . .And God shall wipe
away all tears from their eye” (Rev. 21:3–4). This is the great hope and
consolation for all believers. For Mormons, it has the added poignancy that as
he wipes away those tears,
God himself will be weeping for the residue of his
children who are not there.
(Eugene England , The Weeping God of Mormonism, Originally
published: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 63–80.)
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